Keep in mind this is not about taxes per say but rather about how responsibly and morally is our government spending our hard earned money via taxes.

It is one thing for the government to ask for money to balance budgets it is another thing for a government to ask for money to balance a budget that was the result of wasteful spending and spending on programs that lead to further spending at the expense of the private sector that works to feed this out of control failing government. Let alone funding the abortion business and public schools that are at odds with biblical family values by comprehensive sex ed programs and normalizing families with no mom or dad by promoting a two mom or a two dad family and then equating those who believe a child needs both a mom and dad as bigots, racist or discriminators to be equaled to the KKK during the civil rights movement and all at the expense of our hard earned money via taxes. But tax money should not be spent on controversial programs that are at odds with the tax payers and it seems Californians agree and many others. For contrast see Texas has created 80% of american jobs in 2008, rejects stimulus spending money and calls for National Tea Party says Palin approved Governor Perry...

Also, this is further evidence that Americans are not in agreement with where our tax money is being spent. See Many videos from Tax Tea Parties including extra footage of CNN Chicago Tea Party incident!!!
American Tax Payers to fund study of "Party Drugs" in Brazil. If a University wants to do this with their own money, fine, but quit stealing from us.
Americans via Big Government and taxes are funding $2.6 million to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly on the job...
Tax payers money being spent to study link between drinking and homosexual sex in Argentina and Hillary pledges $1 billion to Palestinians....
American Tax Payers are funding abortions in the US, globally and now in our nation's capital. It gets worse. Tax payer funded abortion litigation!!
American Tax Payers will not only be funding abortions but will be funding programs that increase them.

USA TODAY reports

Calif. voters say no to taxes as deficit cure

"By William M. Welch, USA TODAY

LOS ANGELES — Voters in California on Tuesday slapped down a slew of tax hikes and borrowing measures that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said were needed to solve the state's fiscal dilemma.

Four out of five measures dealing with higher taxes had failed by nearly 2-to-1, and the fifth was trailing badly. The only measure to pass was one that banned pay raises for elected officials in deficit years.

Among those going to the polls was Kerrie Von Korper, a grocery worker said she voted "no on everything. "We all have to live within our means, and that includes the state," she said.

"No more taxes," Karen McCune, a retiree from Long Beach, said as she exited her polling place.

Schwarzenegger wasn't in the state Tuesday. He flew to Washington for a White House ceremony on limiting vehicle emissions.

"You don't want to associate yourself with losers," University of California-San Diego political scientist Gary Jacobson said of the proposals.

The defeat of the measures might indicate trouble for other states considering taxes to fill budget gaps, experts said. Forty-four states predict 2010 budget shortfalls of at least $121 billion, the National Conference of State Legislatures says.

California's rejection of the propositions would be "a signal the patience for taxation is not limitless," said Jack Pitney, politics professor at Claremont McKenna College, during the day's voting. "It conveys that there's an upper limit on the public's willingness to accept taxes," he said. "Other states may not be where California is yet because some of our taxes are very high."

The five failed proposals would have extended through 2012 the higher sales and other taxes imposed for two years in a February budget deal, limit state spending growth, allow borrowing against future lottery earnings and redirect funds earmarked for specific programs into the general coffers.

Schwarzenegger had said that without passage of those five measures, the state's $15 billion shortfall for the year beginning July 1 would grow by $6 billion.

"I don't trust Schwarzenegger, to be honest," said Stella Tilghman, 60, a county mental health worker who voted against all the proposals. "I pretty much think whatever he puts out is not to help us, the little folks."

Although other states may be watching the vote, Darcy Olsen, president and chief executive of the Phoenix-based Goldwater Institute, said many are mulling such ideas as expanding gambling or adjusting fees to make up for budget gaps.

"Most of the states are definitely looking to increase revenues, but they're not all looking at tax increases," she said."